Unscientific Movie King

Chapter 34 Registering a Company
Seeing Qin Chuan's state of mind, Lao Ma thought that he was a contracted singer of some company and that they had given him preferential treatment. He hoped that there would be opportunities for cooperation in the future.

As a professional singer, you can’t just release one song.

After taking off his coat, Qin Chuan entered the recording studio to record a song.

After all, it is a professional device, much better than recording with a mobile phone. When recording with a mobile phone, even if the environment is very quiet, there will be breath and squeaking in the recording.

The money was spent, and Qin Chuan strived for perfection, and the recording took more than two hours.

Only after making sure that there was no problem with any of the lyrics did he walk out of the recording studio.

Lao Ma outside was about to collapse. It was the first time he had seen such a slow singer. The fastest recording time he had ever seen was five minutes.

"Brother Ma, I have some ideas about composing music and I want to talk to you about it."

"You said."

In the reception room, Lao Ma made tea for Qin Chuan, and the two sat down to discuss the arrangement and determine the style of the song.

"I want to start with guitar, something like this." Qin Chuan looked left and right, found a guitar in the recording studio, and played a short piece himself.

"The prelude is about twenty seconds long."

Lao Ma nodded along with the melody: "No problem, I can do it."

This melody is not long and not difficult. For professionals like them, the only difficulty is that they don’t know whether this tune has been used before.

But since it is asked by the employer, they don't care and just do it. If they get sued, it has nothing to do with them.

"Starting from the first line of the lyrics, I'm going to switch to the drum set. Where is your drum set?"

"Over here, follow me." Lao Ma took Qin Chuan to the music room and showed him the drum set.

There is a complete range of musical instruments here, including almost all the instruments that can be found on the market.

"Give me a DJ sound, slower and softer."

"Yes, continue."

Qin Chuan asked Lao Ma to play the DJ and he hummed along. When he heard many literary youths humming, he stopped.

"The drums are added here, not this kind of drums, folk-style drums, understand?"

"Don't stop DJing, let's work together."

It’s not easy to earn these seven thousand yuan. Lao Ma’s eyelids twitched, but his hands still drummed obediently.

In the past, when they made arrangements, they would communicate with the customers and determine the style before starting work. Finally, the finished product would be presented to the customers for listening, with only a few minor changes made at most.

This was the first time I met someone like Qin Chuan, and I taught him how to compose music step by step.

The teaching lasted for more than 40 minutes. Lao Ma was exhausted. Qin Chuan directed him to play the guitar, harmonica and bass.

Fortunately, he can play many musical instruments, otherwise he would be too busy.

When he was sending the people away, he stopped Huang Bo and wiped his sweat: "Old Huang, who is your brother?"

Qin Chuan took care of all the composing work by himself.

Their presence is the soundtrack.

I originally planned to spend five days to finish this song for him, but now it seems that it can be done in two days at most.

Huang Bo laughed and said, "Didn't I tell you, he's awesome."

"That's really awesome." Lao Ma gave a thumbs up. "I have never seen such an all-round talent in all my years in the industry. He can write lyrics and compose music, and he can also arrange music.

There is a saying in the circle that it takes one year to write lyrics and ten years to write music.

This means that you may be able to learn to write lyrics in a year, but it takes ten years to compose music.

This is a bit exaggerated, but it also illustrates the difficulty of composing music.

The difficulty of arranging music is no easier than composing music. In order to arrange music, in addition to being proficient in basic music theory, you must also have a certain level of music appreciation and be proficient in various musical instruments.

After all, if you don't even know what sound each instrument can produce, and what effect it can achieve in combination with other instruments, then you're just composing a messed up song.

In Lao Ma's opinion, Qin Chuan can accurately tell which instrument is used for each verse of the lyrics, which shows that he is proficient in these instruments. This is a bit scary. At such a young age, he can write lyrics and compose music, not to mention singing, but also various instruments and music theory.

Even professional singers who have been in the industry for more than ten years may not have this level of skill.

"Remember to get a discount next time you come." After saying this, Huang Bo caught up with Qin Chuan with a bleeding heart.

She trotted over, grabbed his neck, and pulled him towards her.

"Why didn't you tell me in advance that you could compose music? Would it have cost you seven thousand if you had told me earlier? At least it could have been half the price."

This wave of losses is huge.

"I don't know how to compose music." Qin Chuan looked innocent.

"You are talking nonsense to me, what happened to you just now?"

"That's my ideal arrangement style. I intuitively feel that this combination of instruments would be better."

Huang Bo was dumbfounded: "Intuition?"

Qin Chuan nodded: "Yes, it's just intuition. Haven't you seen me always let Lao Ma do the operation? If I could play the guitar, harmonica, and drums, I would do it myself."

He has performed this song many times using Nuo props, and he can restore it one-to-one in his dreams.

The main reason I don’t compose my own music is that it’s too troublesome.

First of all, he has to learn to play things like acoustic guitar, drum set, harmonica, bass, and electric keyboard.

It is totally not cost-effective to learn so many skills just for a song. Even if you have Nuo tools, it will take more than one or two days to unlock each one to the mastery level.

It would be easier and more convenient to just leave professional matters to professionals and let Lao Ma and others do it.

The only thing he paid was a few thousand dollars.

"Fuck, you compose music based on intuition?" Huang Bo was hurt today and his eyes were opened.

What the hell is the difference between this and Beethoven being deaf and relying on biting a wooden stick to feel the vibrations that transmit the sound into his brain when playing the piano.

What is a genius? This is a fucking genius.

"Xiaochuan, can you use your intuition and write a song for me? I don't want to be an actor anymore."

"Brother-in-law, don't do this." Qin Chuan pushed Huang Bo away as he was about to kiss him: "I've already told you to rely on your feelings. Feelings are definitely not there all the time."

It would be really funny if the future movie star was forced to drop out of school just because he was showing off.

He was also planning to wait for two years for Huang Bo to take off and then give him a hand.

"I need your help in registering a company."

"Why do you want to register a company?" Huang Bo was confused again. His mind was a little stuck today.

"I plan to separate acting and singing into two different industries. I can't explain the details in a sentence or two. Anyway, please help me with the registration procedures."

After terminating the contract with the agency, one cannot sing the songs he wrote and does not have any copyright. Such cases will occur more than once in the entertainment industry in the future.

It sounds funny, but this case does exist.

The reason is that your song was created during the period when you were signed to the agency and is a company product.

Some will even take back your stage name and forbid you to use it.

In order to prepare for the future, Qin Chuan planned to separate acting and singing. Even if he signs a contract with a new company in the future, he will have to state this matter in the contract.

He only signs plays, not songs.

"By the way, write your name on the legal representative." Qin Chuan said to Huang Bo affectionately, "Even if I get rich, I can't forget you. Let's make a lot of money together."

Huang Bo pushed him away and said, "Little bastard, don't think you don't know. The legal representative is the one who takes the blame."

"You can find anyone you want to be the boss, don't find me."

(End of this chapter)